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Putting It Together
I want to write something this morning because I feel great!! I want my joy to spill over. But what do you make of what I’ve seen and heard lately? From son who is playing video games: “Note to...
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Dust, cancer and crazy people
Why is it in this beautiful and peaceful morning, the sun warming this very spot through my eastern window, that all I see at the moment is the dust flying all around me and covering my keyboard? I...
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Incredible Yields
Have you spent much time reading Exodus or Leviticus? Deuteronomy? There are some odd things in there to place relative to our culture. Parts of the sacrificial system are really mind-boggling to me...
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Doldrums
I live in goose country. Driving home a few weekends ago, I saw hundreds lifting to fly away. It was a huge group of mostly snow geese with a few dozen Canadian geese mixed in. Snow geese fly like a...
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Finding North
Ugh. Science Fair time. My middle child and I spent many hours over the weekend on his science fair project on magnetism and making a compass. In the midst of it he says, “Why do we have to make the...
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Food for Thought
The neighbor kid somehow knows when I am either making pancakes for breakfast or having pizza for supper. The other night he happened to be over when I had made soup — lotsa veggie soup. He has this...
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Just Plain Life
If I would have died yesterday on my walk, this is what they would have found on me: A few small bones (rib, jawbone, tooth), a couple of shells the size of my fingernail, a hatchet, a petrified piece...
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Quadrapedaling
We went to the zoo yesterday. They had these 4-seater, 4-wheeled bikes with 4 sets of peddles that the kids thought would really heighten the experience. I said okay as long as I didn’t have to do...
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Dealing with Zombies
Seeing the forlorn bobbing head of the neighbor boy yesterday walking down the road, I asked if he wanted to join me. My kids had been out-of-town for spring break and I was on my way to retrieve...
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Because of the Poster Board
I don’t have a green thumb, but I do have dirty fingernails. I love getting on my hands and knees and digging in the dirt. Right now I live in a place with lousy soil and similar weather. Before...
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Handkerchief in the Pew
Do you just know when you have had a good worship experience at church? I’ve got to hand it to our praise and worship team; they try so hard! Still, when you’re wrangling kids in pews, getting...
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Brown Corduroys
It’s been a few months now since this incident occurred, and like Mary, I’ve treasured it, haven’t been real sure what to do with it. I heard myself repeating it the other day to a friend, the first...
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Needing a change
Happy Second Week of the New Year. I’m still off a day and it feels like a Wednesday to me. The country is half-frozen, including my upstairs shower, and it’s foggy outside today. No sunshine. No...
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King of Creation – even Neandertal
I am reading this 20-year-old book called Bones of Contention, A Creationist Assessment on Human Fossils – not your typical summer light read but it was on the shelf near a book on Kennewick Man found...
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Thirteen Years
As I was walking this morning I passed by a place where last summer a boy lost his rocket. I happened to be walking there when he and his grandfather were searching in an uncut field near the school...
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Praying Mantis Upside-down
You know I have recently lost someone I love very much, my son. What you don’t know is that it was suicide and a horrific shock. This post is not intended to be a downer or a grieving mother’s...
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Hard of Hearing
Church is sometimes hard. I still can’t sing praise in church, just can’t get through the lump in my throat. So last Sunday during the offering, usually a quieter moment with only the sound of...
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This is the Day
It has been three months to the day and date, and as I write, very near the time. My child’s passing is marked so. Thirteen years was not enough for me. And in case you are ready to quit reading, it...
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Prayer
I have only a few minutes to write this morning. I don’t feel like writing. I don’t feel like hearing or seeing if even I have had those moments. Life is just hard right now. I have come to think...
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Fly By
Yes, this is about Pluto. It is about a journey that took 9-1/2 years to carry out one of its goals — and that is just in-air time. It is about something so far away, 3 billion miles, with an...
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